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...brutal and inhuman" the rise of U. S. Steel Corp. stock upon news of a 15% pay cut (see p. 51). Excerpts: "Every day that passes makes it more clear that there is nothing more futile than sending out to the Orient a religion which is not transforming the pagan forces which are so largely ruling here in America. The kind of a pagan world we live in is clearly pictured in the movement of the Stock Exchange quotations on Friday of last week. The headlines . . . tell the brutal and inhuman story: 'Steel Pay Cut Again; Stocks Rise Rapidly...
Only recorded instance of forcible conversion to Jewry occurred in the 2nd Century B.C., when John Hyrcanus, an early Maccabaean leader, in spite of protests from the rabbis, converted the idolatrous Idumeans. In 740 A.D. the Khazar dynasty in southern Russia, originally pagan, became Jewish. Their kingdom was wiped out in 1016. Aquila, supposedly related to Emperor Hadrian, became a Jew, translated the Old Testament into Greek. A contemporary convert is French, Catholic-born Poet Aimé Palli...
...Wrigley, from what little we know of him, was a rather typical modern pagan. He may have given generously to his church, but our guess is that his benefactions were infinitesimal as compared with the money he lavished on his estates. . . . We know of no special evidence of a sensitive Christian conscience in his business dealings, though we assume that he was honest in the contemporary sense of that term...
...Medici, the refinement and culture of the day, in Desiderio's Giovanna degli Albizzi. The mystic, contemplative personality is portrayed in Donatello's St. John, and, in the Madonna that della Robbia has set against an infinite blue sky, we have the religious sincerity that survived the enthusiasm for pagan culture. The typical Italian devotion to children is nowhere more delightfully shown than in Desiderio's portrait...
...peace times such good deeds as 'picking up women who faint in the street" and "seeing that the trains are kept clean'' are done by 2,000,000 maidenly members of the All-Japan Young Women's Association, pagan...